You first need to select your timezone so that your system knows where it is
-located. Look for your timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo, then make a
-symlink to /etc/localtime using ln:
+located. Look for your timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo, then copy
+it to /etc/localtime. Please avoid the
+/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT* timezones as their names do not
+indicate the expected zones. For instance, GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.